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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed April 18, 1918. Serial No. 229,243.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH LINHART, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Elmhurst, in the county of Queens and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Fasteners,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hooks and fasteners and especially to what iscommonly known as hooks and eyes and its object is to overcome theobjectionable features in the means for securing these articles to clothor fabric by combining with them a point to penetrate the said fabricand a spur to enter the same when the two members of the fastener are tobe attached to a garment. These and other details and objects of theinvention are more fully described in the following specification, setforth in the claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawingswherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the two fasteners detached but inposition to be united.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view through the hook and eye whilesecured to two parts of a garment to unite them and on line 2-2 of Fig.3.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same.

As shown in the drawings the eye-member 5 is preferably formed with ahead 6 at at its outer end and a slot 7 provided therein for thereception of the hook 10 of the cooperating member 8, the exposed partsof the two members consisting of, otherwise, strips of sheet metal ofuniform width and at their inner ends turned under as at the shoulder 9and the under portion tapered to a point 11 which is used to penetrateand be located under the fabric of a garment.

The two members are made so that the upper parts and the points aredeflected, the latter being at a distance from the hook or ye so thatthe point may be easily inserted in the fabric up to the shoulder 9 andthe two parts pressed together so that these parts are substantiallyparallel. It is customary to connect the hooks and eyes with the garmentat its meeting edges 12 and 13 and the two members ar reversed andattached to opposite sides of the edges as shown in Fig. 2 so that thehook is secured to the under side of the fabric while the eye is on theouter side and the parts of each member are closed and besides beingheld by the pin 11 a small spur 15 is provided and punched from the bodyparts 5 and 8 and passes through the fabric and into a perforation 16near the upper end of the pin and the spur may be long enough to beturned back after passing through the hole so as to clamp the partstogether.

This means of fastening the members assures a strong and safe connectionbetween each member and the fabric and a connection that is quicklymade.

As the parts of the fasteners are small and fragile additional strengthmay be given them at points where the most strain is put upon them byforming ribs 17 in the upper part or body of each member.

While the old type of hook and eye is sewed in place with considerabletime and trouble and th threads are vary liable to break or be pulledoff, thereby releasing the fastener, this improvement is quickly andsubstantially located and is able to withstand far more strain than theold style hook and eye.

It is obvious that the device may be otherwise constructed or modifiedwithout departing from th essential features above described or from thescope of the appended claims.

What I claim as new is:

1. In garment fasteners, the combination of cooperating parts one havinga hook and the other a socket or eye, pins at the opposite ends of thehook and socket, shoulders at the upper ends of the pins, and spurs toengage the garment when the fasteners are located.

2. In garment fasteners, the combination of ribbed plates having at oneend a fastening means and at the other end a shoulder, a reduced andtapered part extending from the shoulder turned substantially parallelwith the plate and having a perforation, and a spur from the plate andadapted to enter the perforation.

3. In a garment fastener, the combination of a ribbed plate havingfastening means at one end and a shoulder at the'other, a tapering pinextending from the shoulder with a perforation and adapted to enter afabric as far as the shoulder, and a spur from the plate adapted toenter the perforation when 10 the plate and pin are pressed together.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,this1st day of April A. D. 1918.

JOSEPH LINHART.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

